England, Downe Ampney House, Gloucestershire
c. 1530-1560
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain; enamel or flashed and abraded glass
38.7 x 36.2 (15 1/4 x 14 1/4) each
Minor replacements in the second panel
Provenance: Chinese Gallery, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire; Roy Grosvenor Thomas, London; Wilfred Drake, London; purchased through the Washburn Fund, 1923
Bibliography: Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (December 1923); International Studio (January 1930), 28; Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (March 1935), ill.
Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Object/Accession: 23.52.1, 2
A. Arms of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Gloucestershire (d. c. 1574) and his first wife Jane Darrell. Arms: Quarterly; 1 and 4 per pale indented gules and vert a chevron or (Heytesbury) and sable two bars argent in chief three plates (FitzJohn) quarterly, with a crescent argent at fess point (Hungerford); 2 argent a lion rampant sable crowned or within a bordure azure (Burnell, Lord Burnell); 3 a saltire engrailed sable (Botetourt); impaling azure a lion rampant or ducally crowned and charged on the shoulder with a cross bottone fitchee argent (Darrell); within a wreath; B. Arms of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Gloucestershire and his second wife, Dorothy Danvers. Arms: Quarterly; 1 and 4 per pale indented gules and vert a chevron or (Heytesbury) and sable two bars argent in chief three plates (FitzJohn) quarterly, with a crescent argent at fess point [Hungerford); 2 argent a lion rampant sable crowned or within a bordure azure (Burnell, Lord Burnell); 3 a saltire engrailed sable (Botetourt); impaling: quarterly; 1 and 4 argent on a bend gules three martlets or, in chief a crescent of the second (Danvers); 2 per pale or and argent three bars nebule gules (Dauncey); 3 gules two bars in chief two stags heads caboshed or (Barendes); within a wreath